Apparatus for automatically and continuously collecting counted coins or the like into equal lots.



G. WIBBRG.

APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY AND GONTINUOUSLY COLLECTING GOUNTED COINS OR THE LIKE INTO EQUAL LOTS.

APPLICATION IILIBD IBB.2B, 1913.

Patented Aug. 26, 1913.

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m 'i merr rz W G. WIBERG. APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIGALLY ANDGONIINUOUSLY COLLECTING GOUNTBD COINS OR THE LIKE INTO EQUAL LOTS.

APPLICATION FILED IEB.28, 1918.

Patented Aug. 26, 1913.

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. G. WIBBRG. APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY AND commuousur COLLECTING 0011mm cams OR THE LIKE INTO EQUAL LOTS.

APPLICATION FILED 313.28, 1913. 1,071,285. Patented Aug. 26, 1913.

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GEORG WIBERG, OF STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN.

APPARATUSFOR AUTOMATICALLY AND CONTINUOUSLY COLLECTING GOUNTED COINS OR THE LIKE INTO EQUAL LOTS.

Original application filed March 1, 1911, Serial No. 611,701.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 26,1913.

Divided and this application filed February 28, 1913. Serial No. 751,230.

To all whom it may concern lie it known that 1, Guess VVJuI-mo, a subject of the King of Sweden, and resident of Strandviigen 57, Stockholm, Sweden, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Automatically and Continuously Collecting Counted Coins or the hike into Equal Lots, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to apparatus for antomatically collecting the coins or the like delivered from a counting device through a discharging channel. into bags or other receptacles automatically and intermittently presented to the channel so as to receive any predetermined number of coins, and it consists in an improved construction of means for controlling the discharge of the coins from the discharging channel and the in-. termittent movements of the empty receptacle into position to receive the counted coins and their removal from that position when the desired number of coins has been deposited, the movements of the receptacles being as usual controlled by the counted coins themselves.

The invention will be described as applied to a counting apparatus of tlie kind described in my pending application No. 611,701 filed 1st March 1911 and is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a counting apparatus the cover of the casing being re- I moved, with the invention applied to it.

Fig. 2 is a section on line A-B of Fig. 1 with the cover in place. Fig. 3 is a section on line C-D of Fig. 2, Fig. -1 is a section on line E F of Fig. 2, Fig. 5 represents a detail, viewed from below, and Figs. 6 and 7 are detail views of parts to a larger scale.

In the drawings 1 denotes the casing containing the counting disk 2 of a known counting and number registering device such as that which has been referred to above, and the mechanism, hereinafter referred to and described, for assembling the coins into receptacles.

For collecting the counted coins a discharge channel 3 is provided and so fixed relatively to the counting device that the coins as they are counted will fall into the channel.

Beneath the discharge channel 3 there is provided an intermittently rotated turntable 1- on the periphery of which a number of loose receptacles 5, or bags for receiving the coins falling down from the channel 3 are placed. The turn-table 1 is keyed on a vertical shaft 6 rotatably mounted in bearings on the bottom of the casing 1 and in a rail 7 attached to the casing.

By the rotation of the turn-table one receptacle after the other, as they are filled, can be carried away from the channel. 3 and an empty receptacle be carried under it. The rotation of the turn-table 4 is eilfected by means of a spring device 8 for instance a clockwork and intermediate toothed wheels of which the last one 9, is beveled and gears with a beveled toothed ring 41-, Fig. 7, on the underside of the turn-table 4. The spring device 8 may be wound up by means of a crank 10.

F or securing the predetermined number of coins in each receptacle 5 the following arrangement is provided: A bell crank lever 11, 12 is loosely mounted on a shaft 13 mounted in suitable hearings in the casing 1. Keyed on the shaft 13 is a toothed wheel 14 provided with 200 teeth. One arm 12 of the bell crank lever 11, 12 consists of two oppositely disposed parts inclosing the toothed wheel 1 1 and between said parts outside the toothed wheel is fixed a pin 15 on which two pawls 16, 17, cooperating with the toothed wheel, are mounted. One of said pawls is shorter than the other by the length of half a tooth. The bell crank lever 11, 12 is adapted to be turned by some suitable means cooperating with the counting mechanism, each time a coin is counted. In the example shown in the drawings such turning means comprises a link 18 which is connected with a sleeve 19 capable of longitudinal adjustn'ient in different positions on the arm 11 of the bell crank lever, and is suspended from a rod 20, which rod is lifted each time a coin in a pocket in the counting disk 2 passes below and raises the pivoted rollers 22 as explained in the above cited specification. The rod 20, loosely carried by the arms 61 pivotally mounted on shaft 62, rests on the arm 63 which carry the rollers 22 and are pivoted on the shaft 62.

When the rod 20 is lifted or elevated the bell crank lever 11, 12 is turned and the pawls turn the toothed wheel by 1, 1:}, 2, 2:} etc. teeth according to the adjustment of the sleeve 19. The adjustment of the sleeve 19 is effected by means of an arm 23 movable over a graduated scale 24 by the aid of an arm 25 and a link 26. If the sleeve 19 is adjusted so as to move an amount equivalent to 1, 2 or 3 etc. teeth at a time it is only one of the pawls that effects the rotation, whereas if the sleeve 19 is adjusted for a movement of 13 23; or etc. teeth at a time one pawl first rotates the wheel respectively by 1;}, 21 3:}, etc., teeth after which the other pawl comes into operation and rotates it respectively 1 23,-, etc. teeth, and so on. Two corresponding stopping pawls (not shown) may be arranged on any fixed part of the casing 1 for preventing a rotation of the toothed wheel in the opposite direction. On each side of a bearing 27 for the shaft 13, Figs. 4 and 6, there is attached to the latter an eccentrically curved piece 28, 29 respectively provided with a pin 30, 31, respectively directed toward said bearing. The curved pieces 28, 29 are located at diametrically opposite sides of the shaft 13. In another bearing 32, Fig. '7, in the pedestal of the bearing 27 and in a bearing 33 beneath the turn-table 4 a shaft 34 is mounted. On the shaft 34 a forked piece or fork is attached having downwardly directed branches on one side of the pedestal and near to it, and on the other side of the pedestal near to the turn-table an upwardly directed arm 36 is attached which is provided with two oppositely inclined surfaces 37 Fig. 6, at the upper end. Each branch of the fork 35 forms a sleeve in which a piston 38 is fitted which is adapted to project from the upper end of said sleeve and is actuated by a spiral spring 39; the pistons cooperate with the corresponding eccentrically curved pieces 28, 29. On each branch of the fork there is rotatably disposed a spring actuated double armed lever 40, 41, the upper arms 40 of said levers cooperating with the pins 31 and and the lower arms 41 may be made to snap over shoulders 42 on the pedestal of the bearing 32 so as to keep the corresponding branch of the fork 35 in its upper position. On the other end of the shaft 34 there is attached two arms, forming an escapement 43 cooperating with a number of notches 44, Fig. 5, corresponding to the number of receptacles 5 and arranged in a circle on the underside of the turn-table 4. On the two rods 45, Figs. 3 and 7 extending transversely across the casing 1 runs beneath the channel 3, by means of rollers 46, a carriage 47 having an opening 48 corresponding to the mouth of the channel 3, said car riage serving to close and open the channel 3 at he right moment. At one end of the carriage 47 a rope 49 is attached, said rope passing over sheaves 50 up along one side of the casing 1 and being attached by its other end to one end of a cylindrical spiral spring 51 extending transversely across the casing at the top thereof, said spring being attached with its other end to a nut 52 screwed to the inner screw threaded part of a spindle extending through the wall of the casing and capable of being rotated by means of an outer milled edge head 54 so that the tension of the spring 51 can be adjusted by turning said spindle. By a hook 55, Fig. (5, engaging a notch 56 in the carriage 47 the latter is held in such a position that the opening 48 registers with the mouth of the channel 3 and the carriage is pre vented from moving to the stop 57 provided with buifers 58 under the action of the spring 51. The upper end of the arm 35 cooperates with the hook On the shaft- 6 a perforated disk 59, Fig. 3, is fixed having at the periphery a number of projecting shoulders 60 corresponding to the number of receptacles 5, said shoulders cooperate with a notch 61 on the carriage 47.

The device for obtaining the predeter mined number of coins in each receptacle 5 just described operates in the following manner. It is supposed that 40 coins are desired in each receptacle. After 40 elevations of the rod 20 the channel 3 is to be shut off, a filled receptacle 5 carried away and an empty one carried forward under itand the channel 3 again opened. The crank handle 23 is set at the mark of the scale 24 corresponding to the lot of 40 coins. The channel 3 is supposed to be open, the counting disk to be empty and the counting apparatus about to be operated in some known way. The parts are in the position inclicated on the drawings. At each elevation of the rod 20 the toothed wheel 14 is rotated by 2% teeth being carried forward by one of the pawls and the said pawl is then returned, after which the other pawl snaps in carrying the toothed wheel forward by 23,- teeth and returns and so on. After 40 elevations of the rod 20 the toothed wheel has rotated by 100 teeth, 2'. 6. half of a revolution. During this time the left eccentrically curved piece 28 has depressed the piston 38 and restored the tension of the spring 29 after which the pin 30 actuates the lever 40, 41, and causes it to release the corresponding shoulder 42 on the pedestal of the bearing 32. As this happens the eccentrically curved piece 28 still presses against the piston 38 and therefore the spring 39 depresses the corresponding branch of the fork 35, now free, so asto cause the shaft 34 to rotate carrying with it the arm 36, the end of the latter lifting the hook 55 by one of its inclined surfaces 37, the carriage 47 being then under the action of its spring 51, is moved against the stop 57 thus closing the mouth of the channel 3 and preventing the further supply of coins to the receptacle. At the said rotation of the shaft 34 the escapement is also released from the turn-table 1-, the latter beginning to rotate under the action of the spring device 8. One of the shoulders 60 Will then engage the notch 61 on the carriage 47 causing the latter to be returned against the action of the spring 51 and the hook 55 again to engage its notch 56 on the carriage L7 looking it in such a position that the channel 3 is again open and the coins begin to fall down into the next receptacle. The channel 3 havlng thus been opened the right hand lever 40, 41, in Fig. 6 has locked the right hand branch of the fork 35 in its upper position and the eccentrically curved piece 28 has released its engagement With its piston 38. It is the right hand branch of the fork 85 and the other inclined surface on the end of the arm 86 that will act next as just described.

Obviously many details of construction may be modified Without departing from the character of the invention.

I claim:

In apparatus for automatically and conthe discharging channel of a counting device, comprising a traversing member having a part adapted to form a closure to the outlet of the said channel and a part Wl h an opening corresponding to said outlet, a plvotally mounted member automatically operating to retain the said traversing memher in a normal position in Which the aperture registers With the outlet, means controlled by the counted coins for moving sald pivoted member to release the traversing member as soon as a predetermined number of coins has been deposited, automatically operating means for shifting the traversing member to a position to close the outlet and means for returning the traversing member to the said normal position as soon as a filled receptacle has been removed from below the outlet.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

GEORG VVIBERG. Witnesses:

MARGARETA PRIEN, ESTER LARSSON.

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